Printing-machine.



E.'P.SHELDON PRINTING MACHINE. APPLICATION PILD .TUNE 22, 1907.

1,055,497'. Patented Mar. 11, 1913.

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f instaan sfrarns iearaisfr enteren@ EDWARD P. SHE-LDON, OF NEWIYORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO

R. HOE AND C0., F NEW YORK, N. Y., A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PRINTING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pate-Bylined iwal. 11, 1913,

Application filed .Tune 22, 1907. Serial No. 380,223. v

To @ZZ w71 om, t may concern Be it known that l, EDWARD P. SHELDQN, .residing at New York,4 county of Kings, and State of VNew York,` have invented certain new and useful improvements in Printing-Machines, fullv described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to'certain improvements in printing nuchines.

Machines have. been heretofore constructed in which a Web or a plurality of Webs have been forwarded and cut into sheets and such machines have included devices whereby sheets from a source ot supply independent ofthe Web', such, for instance, as a pile, have been forwarded to be associated with the web sheets, such association being effected by a collecting cylinder.

. chines is especially desirable in establishments Where it is desired to incorporate with the product of a high speed web machine specially printed sheets such colored pictures, or sheets printed in such a manner that they can be more practically produced on special printingl machines, such as lithographic or flat bed machines. It has been found, however, that the machines referred to lack that flexibility ci product which is sometimes desired. lt sometimes happens, for instance, that a publisher desires toissue from his machine a product such as has been described having a cover or specially printed sheets, or both, of such a class that the cover and specially printed'sheets should be produced on lithographie or dat bed machines, and at other times he may" desire to introduce a specially printed sheet which can be produced on a web machine. In this latter case, he may desire to introduce this specially printed sheet directly with the web sheets, as, for instance, when it is to form the cover of an uucollectcd product, in which Vcase the independent source oi.E sheet supply before referred to might be cut out. Again, he may desire to introduce specially printed sheets from his machine with a collected product which may or may not include the sheets from the independent source et sheet supply.- l i 'It is 'the object ci this invention to produce a .printing machine which shall. be capacit-ated to form a product which may consist of web sheets and vspecially printedy This class of ma` source of supply, such as a pile, independent of the Webs which forms the main roduct, or in web form at the speed of t e vmain Webs of the machine, or in Web form at a speed which will enable the specially printed sheets from the Web to be associated with a collected product from the main Webs, or specially printed matter ,may be introducedV both4 in the form of sheets from an independent source oI supply, such as a pile, or from a Web.

Referring to the drawings-Figure 1 illustrates in diagrammatic side elevation a Smachine embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a vdetail View illustrating certain gearing which may be employed.

Machines embodying the invention Will include means for forwarding a Web or Webs from which the main product of the machine is to be produced. These means Will vary according to the particular construetion of printing machine in which the invention is embodied. In the construction illustrated, these means consist ot' a pair of bending rolls 1 and a pair of drawingbil rolls 9..V These rolls, in the particular construction illustrated, deliver the lwebs W, three of Which are shown, to a pair of cutting cylinders 3 of usual construction, the sheets thus formed being delivered, in the particular construction illustrated,vto a collecting cylinder 4. "The cylinder illustrated is of the ordinary three-part type.

Machines embodying the invention Will also be provided With means for supplying specially printed sheets thereto. and in the best constructions thesesheets will be taken from a pile or piles. Two piles, 5, G, are illustrated. The sheets may, if desired, be removed from the pile 5 by an automatic feeding mechanism of any usual type, the forwarding roller, of which is indicated diagrammatically at 7. These sheets may bel 'passed along a pathway formed by tapes 8, 9 supported and operated in the usual manner, these tapes operating to deliver the sheets toa pair of guides 10. The sheets from the pile 6 may be automatically removed from the pile, if' desired, by an automatic feeding mechanism of any approved type, the drop roller of such mechanism being indicated at 1L' Sheets from this pile sol a gear on the standing shaft. The tapes 14 run around a roll 25 and then around a driven roll 26. The tapes 15 run around the drivenv roll 22 before described and then around a roll 27.v The two tape pathways described may serve to forward the sheets from the piles and they may be delivered to the web sheets in any desired manner. As illustrated, these pathways deliver to a pair of cylinders 27, 2S. As the mechanism is organized, in the particular machine shown, these pile sheets are double length sheets and are to be cut in half and successively delivered to the three-part collectingl cylinder.` The cylinder 28 is employed as a detaining cylinder for the second lhalf of the sheets so as to effect the proper interval between the delivery of the halves `of the sheets to the three-part collecting cylinder. This cylinder also acts as a cutting cylinder in connection with the cylinder 27 which is provided,

in the construction illustrated, with a knife 29. The speciic`mechanism by which the various operations of ,these cylinders are effected has nobearing on the present invention and is not, therefore, illustrated or described.

Machines embodying the invention will .also be provided with means for forwarding an additional web, and these means will vary according to the character of the machine in which the invention is embodied. In the construction illustrated, this additional web, marked W', is shown, according to one arrangement of the machine, as being forwarded by a pair of drawing rolls 30. These rolls serve to forward the web at a lesser speed than the main webs. These rolls deliver the additional web to a pair of cutting cylinders 31, which cylinders, ofl course, run at a proper speed to sever the additional web2 into sheets, as desired. These cylinders 31 may be intergeared as illustrated (see Fig. 2) and they serve to drive the rolls 30 by an intermediate .32. The. cylinders 31 may be in turn driven from the standing shaft 2() before referred to and the construction mav be such that the sneed of the cutting cylinders and the forwarding rollers 30 may be varied according to the number of collections to be made by the collecting cylinder 4. While the particular construction by which this result. when itis desired, may be effected, Fig; 2 illustrates a y suit-able change. gearing for this purpose.

According to this construction, the shaft of one of the cylinders 31 is provided with two gears 33, 34, both of which are fast on the lshaft. A stud shaft 35 is provided which carriestwo gears 36, 37 both of which are fast on the sha-ft,\but it may be slid along the shaft so that the gear 37 may be in or out of mesh with the gear 36, and the gear 36 may the gear 33. This stud shaft 25 may be driven by bevel gears 38, 39, the gear 39 being mounted on the standing' shaft. 4According to the gearing illustrated, when the gears 37 and 34 are in mesh, the web W will be forwarded at half the speed of the main webs W. When the gears 36, 33 are in mesh, that web will be forwarded at one quarter the speed of the main webs. Ac. cordingv to this construction, therefore, the collecting; cylinder 4 may make either tw'o or four collections from the main webs'and the sheets from the web 1V will be delivered in the proper time for these collections. After thesheets are eut from the web W, they will be forwarded in any suitable manner, as by the metallic sheet guides 40. These sheets, asthey are associated with sheets from the main webs, should be brought up to the speed of these webs. This may be accomplished in anyapproved manner. 1n the construction shown, two speeding-up rollers 41 are employed for this purpose, these rollers receiving the sheets from the guides 40 and delivering them to a similar pair ofguides 42. These speeding-up rolls may be driven by suitable gearing, indicated at 43, 44, from the shaftwhich carries the roll 16. The guides 42, in the particular construction illustrated` serve to deliverthe sheets to the sheet pathway formed by the tapes 12, 13, 14. 15 before referred to. If desired. this supplementary web W', either specially printed or not` may be run uncut directly to and associated with the webs W. This course of the web is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the web in this instance passing over a pair of guide .rolls 45 46.

lt will be understood that the construction described provides an exceedingly iiexible machine so far as the products are concerned and one which is well-adapted to the varying products desired by the publishers of periodicals which vary considerably in their character. i The printing mechanism which is not illustrated. while it may be of anv usual i type, may be assumed to be. for the purposes of description. a. two-deck machine. i each deck having pairs ot' printing couples six pages wide, such t well-known in the art. ith this construction, the three webs 1V may be obtained i from the lower deck, the usual slitting and associating mechanisms being employed, l and, it desired, a similarl product may be mechanisms being wlll give a sixteen might consist of obtained from` the upperdeck. The upper deck may berun as an chine and produce a cover two pages wide, the web in' that case following thel course of the web W and being run in with` they webs. W, as indicated. vThis construction page 'productwhich twelve pages and a cover, the pile feeds being cut out. Again, by running the upper deck asanindependent machine and as. adouble ender, the

web may issueas a cover printed in black on fthe inside and in three colors on theurse'ofv mightbe delivered to' a coloutside. 1This vweb following the c the web W l lectod product from the main webs which ning .either i tothose skilled thejart.' Changes andi-variations may beniadeinr by ,which the invention is would vary according to. th webs run and the number of pile feed's e number 'of bein 1cut"out f ain, by' runor goth of the sheet feeds, roduct may'be again-varied as to the er of Ashee s rand the product also varied-aste Athe vchata 'r fo l' mechanism will readil suggest themselves the construction carriedA into effect. l" 4The invention is not, therefor-atto be, rconfined to the particular :onstr'uction)l 'hereinbefore described and illustrated'in `-the .accompanying drawings.-

at is claimedis :-l l 1. he combinatiopjwith means .for for- Werding a web and cutting it into sheets, of

a collecting cylinder independent of the cuta source o fisheet ,from said source independent Inathis additional web collections, the.

acollecting cylinder ting means, a

witnesses.

tional web at alesser into sheets, and means for bringingl the sheets from. the additional' web up to the' speed of the other web and for delivering it to the sheet pathway.

2. The combination with means for for-f warding 'a web and converting it Ainto sheets, of a collecting cylinder, a pathway along which sheets may be forwarded to be asso-- ciated `with warding'an additional web at alesser speed than that of the first named web, means for .varying the speed of this web in accordance .With the number'of collections- :madeV by the collecting cylinder, means for converting sheet pathway, and means for associating said web uncut and' atV full speed with the other web. Y

In testimony whereof, I have hereuntoset .my hand, in the EDVVATRD P. SHELDON. Witnesses;

' F.- W. H. CRANE,

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speed'than that of .the -rst named web and for converting it into vsheets and 'for therefrom up tol the' her web and. for-delivering them to the presence of two subscribing` said web sheets, means'for for-l 5 to be associated with Said s 

